Erpobdella

Erpobdella
	Erpobdella octoculata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Annelida
Clade:	Pleistoannelida
Clade:	Sedentaria
Class:	Clitellata
Subclass:	Hirudinea
Order:	Arhynchobdellida
Family:	Erpobdellidae
Genus:	Erpobdella; Blainville, 1818
Type species
	Erpobdella octoculata; (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species
	See text
Synonyms
	Croatobranchus Kerovec, Kučinić & Jalžic, 1999; Mooreobdella Pawlowski, 1955; Nephelopsis Verrill, 1872; Semiscolecides Augener, 1930; Trocheta Dutrochet, 1817;

Erpobdella is a genus of leeches in the family Erpobdellidae. Members of the genus have three or four pairs of eyes, but never have true jaws, and are typically 20–50 millimetres (0.8–2.0 in) long. All members do not feed on blood, but instead are predators of small aquatic invertebrates, which they often swallow whole.^[2]^[3]

Species

The genus includes species previously classified under the genera Croatobranchus, Mooreobdella, Trocheta and Nephelopsis. These were synonymized into Erpobdella by Sidall (2002) after morphogenetic analysis. There are over 30 currently accepted species:^[1]^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7]^[8]^[9]

Erpobdella adani (Tessler, Siddall, & Oceguera-Figueroa, 2018)
Erpobdella anoculata (Moore, 1898)
Erpobdella bhatiai Nesemann, 2007
Erpobdella borisi Chichocka et al., 2015
Erpobdella bucera (Moore, 1953)
Erpobdella bykowski (Gedroyc, 1913)
Erpobdella concolor Annandale, 1913
Erpobdella costata Sawyer & Shelley, 1976
Erpobdella dubia (Moore & Meyer, 1951)
Erpobdella fervida (Verrill, 1874)
Erpobdella japonica (Pawlowski, 1952)
Erpobdella johanssoni (Johansson, 1927)
Erpobdella krasense (Sket, 1968)
Erpobdella lahontana Hovingh & Klemm, 2000
Erpobdella luguensis Liu, 1984
Erpobdella melanostoma (Sawyer & Shelley, 1976)
Erpobdella mestrovi (Kerovec, Kučinić & Jalžić, 1999)
Erpobdella mexicana (Dugès, 1872)
Erpobdella microstoma (Moore, 1901)
Erpobdella monostriata (Lindenfeld et Pietruszynski, 1890)
Erpobdella nigricollis (Brandes, 1900)
Erpobdella obscura (Verrill, 1872)
Erpobdella octoculata (Linnaeus, 1758)
Erpobdella ochoterenai Caballero, 1932
Erpobdella punctata (Leidy, 1870)
Erpobdella quaternaria (Moore, 1930)
Erpobdella subviridis (Dutrochet, 1817)
Erpobdella testacea (Savigny, 1820)
Erpobdella tetragon (Sawyer & Shelley, 1976)
Erpobdella triannulata Moore, 1908
Erpobdella vilnensis (Liskiewicz, 1925)
Erpobdella wuttkei Kutschera, 2004

References

^ ^a ^b Mark E. Siddall (2002). "Phylogeny of the leech family Erpobdellidae (Hirudinida : Oligochaeta)" (PDF). Invertebrate Systematics. 16: 1–6. doi:10.1071/IT01011.
^ E. Lukin (1976). Leeches of fresh and brackish water reservoirs [Пиявки пресных и солоноватых водоёмов]. Nauka. pp. 1–484.
^ Douglas Grant Smith (2001). "Annelida". Pennak's freshwater invertebrates of the United States: Porifera to Crustacea (4th ed.). John Wiley & Sons. pp. 269–313. ISBN 978-0-471-35837-4.
^ S. Trajanovski; C. Albrecht; K. Schreiber; R. Schultheiß; T. Stadler; M. Benke & T. Wilke (2010). "Testing the spatial and temporal framework of speciation in an ancient lake species flock: the leech genus Dina (Hirudinea: Erpobdellidae) in Lake Ohrid". Biogeosciences. 7 (11): 3387–3402. Bibcode:2010BGeo....7.3387T. doi:10.5194/bg-7-3387-2010. hdl:20.500.11850/29517.
^ Serge Utevsky; Pavel Dubov & Alexander Prokin (2015). "First Russian record of Erpobdella monostriata: DNA barcoding and geographical distribution" (PDF). Spixiana. 38: 161–168.
^ U. Kutschera (2004). "Description of a new leech species, Erpobdella wuttkei nov. sp. (Hirudinea: Erpobdellidae)" (PDF). Lauterbornia. 52: 147–151.
^ Fredric R Govedich; Dean W Blinn; Paul Keim; Ronald W Davies (1998). "Phylogenetic relationships of three genera of Erpobdellidae (Hirudinoidea), with a description of a new genus, Motobdella, and species, Motobdella sedonensis". Canadian Journal of Zoology. 76 (12): 2164–2171. doi:10.1139/z98-132.
^ Cichocka JM; Bielecki A; Kur J; Pikuła D; Kilikowska A; Biernacka B (2015). "A new leech species (Hirudinida: Erpobdellidae: Erpobdella) from a cave in the West Azerbaijan province of Iran". Zootaxa. 4013 (3): 413–427. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4013.3.5. PMID 26623905.
^ Nesemann, Hasko; Sharma, Subodh; et al. (2007), Aquatic Invertebrates of the Ganga River System (Mollusca, Annelida, Crustacea [in part]), vol. 1, pp. 1–263

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[siddall-1] Mark E. Siddall (2002). "Phylogeny of the leech family Erpobdellidae (Hirudinida : Oligochaeta)" (PDF). Invertebrate Systematics. 16: 1–6. doi:10.1071/IT01011.

[2] E. Lukin (1976). Leeches of fresh and brackish water reservoirs [Пиявки пресных и солоноватых водоёмов]. Nauka. pp. 1–484.

[3] Douglas Grant Smith (2001). "Annelida". Pennak's freshwater invertebrates of the United States: Porifera to Crustacea (4th ed.). John Wiley & Sons. pp. 269–313. ISBN 978-0-471-35837-4.

[S._Trajanovski-4] S. Trajanovski; C. Albrecht; K. Schreiber; R. Schultheiß; T. Stadler; M. Benke & T. Wilke (2010). "Testing the spatial and temporal framework of speciation in an ancient lake species flock: the leech genus Dina (Hirudinea: Erpobdellidae) in Lake Ohrid". Biogeosciences. 7 (11): 3387–3402. Bibcode:2010BGeo....7.3387T. doi:10.5194/bg-7-3387-2010. hdl:20.500.11850/29517.

[Utevsky-5] Serge Utevsky; Pavel Dubov & Alexander Prokin (2015). "First Russian record of Erpobdella monostriata: DNA barcoding and geographical distribution" (PDF). Spixiana. 38: 161–168.

[U._Kutschera-6] U. Kutschera (2004). "Description of a new leech species, Erpobdella wuttkei nov. sp. (Hirudinea: Erpobdellidae)" (PDF). Lauterbornia. 52: 147–151.

[Govedich-7] Fredric R Govedich; Dean W Blinn; Paul Keim; Ronald W Davies (1998). "Phylogenetic relationships of three genera of Erpobdellidae (Hirudinoidea), with a description of a new genus, Motobdella, and species, Motobdella sedonensis". Canadian Journal of Zoology. 76 (12): 2164–2171. doi:10.1139/z98-132.

[Joanna_Chichocka-8] Cichocka JM; Bielecki A; Kur J; Pikuła D; Kilikowska A; Biernacka B (2015). "A new leech species (Hirudinida: Erpobdellidae: Erpobdella) from a cave in the West Azerbaijan province of Iran". Zootaxa. 4013 (3): 413–427. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4013.3.5. PMID 26623905.

[NESEMANN_H.-9] Nesemann, Hasko; Sharma, Subodh; et al. (2007), Aquatic Invertebrates of the Ganga River System (Mollusca, Annelida, Crustacea [in part]), vol. 1, pp. 1–263

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